Posts tagged occupy oakland
«Because if it is the right thing to do, then we have every right to do it.” The crowd cheered as the chains on the gates were cut open and hundreds flooded onto the Gill Tract, several acres of University of California (UC) property that have been contested for more than a decade. They brought tools, straw, chickens in portable coops and 15,000 starter plants that had been growing in green houses around Northern California for the past several months before finding their home in this Class I soil in the sleepy bedroom community of Albany, just north of Berkeley.»
— Occupy the Farm Dig In, Dug Up — me for Truthout today (via susie-c)
I want to create my own on-the-go amplification system. This guy had an awesome set-up. Where does one even get a three-way megaphone-thingie like that?
Besides being on an exceptionally cute dog, I like that this sign doesn’t purport to know this pooch’s political beliefs, as so many of these placard-on-baby-or-dog protest signs do.
“Justice is what love looks like in public”
Anarchist medic, Occupy Oakland General Strike on May Day.
Justice is blind.
Hey extroverts, next time you’re thinking of attending a protest, buy a megaphone. These three protesters were having a blast, calling back and forth with their megaphones. Marches are a lot more fun if you have a way to amplify your voice, but I’d never seen three people trading off like this. Usually one person trades it around until they get tired, or get too nervous about whether or not the crowd will respond. But these three showed that more megaphones = more fun, as their calls felt as much like a jam session as a call to action.
Random sign in support of the May Day protest was left outside an apartment building in East Oakland.
Decolonization ship at the May Day protest in East Oakland. I wonder how long it took them to build it.
The protest was very focused on immigrants rights and indigenous peoples’ rights, so this boat fit right in.
Hey drummer, nice sign. At the general strike march, Occupy Oakland, May Day.
